Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!geech.ai.mit.edu!rjc From: rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT-bashing party (hit "n" if you're not interested :-)) Message-ID: <1991Mar17.031448.26855@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 17 Mar 91 03:14:48 GMT References: <7724@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Organization: The Internet Lines: 41 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <7724@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes: > > [ whole bunches of lines on the NeXT's availability deleted] > >A small price to pay for getting a chip (the 68040) fresh onto the >market in a computer. Quite a few people ordered the new NeXT. Who >can complain. However, I think Motorola is getting up to speed on on >040 production. So, maybe the Amiga 4000 will be out in a year or >two. For now, Amiga users can always pay for an Amiga 3000 then spend >another $1500(or whatever it costs) to upgrade to the 040. It won't cost that much. In fact, it'll probably cost well under $900 since I've seen 3 Amiga vendors quote $995 list for their 040 boards when they ship. >-Mike > >BTW: It feels good knowing that Word Perfect 5.0 runs on the NeXT. It feels good that AT&T Unix runs on an A3000. >How's Commodore doing in getting software companies to take them >seriously? It's not a matter of taking the Amiga seriously, it's a matter of paying their development fees. Lotus would be glad to port their products to the Amiga for about $15 mill. I'm willing to bet more copies of Word Perfect were sold on the Amiga than the total number of NeXT machines sold. How did NeXT get all those major packages ported when the # of NeXT owners only number in the 10s of thousands? The answer is $$$ plain and simple. If I were a developer faced with a choice of porting to the Amiga or porting to the NeXT, I'd port to the Amiga simply because the user base is about 2 orders of magnitude bigger. Only one thing could change my mind, and that would be if someone offered me a large sum of money to port to the smaller market. Hell, if the sum was large enough, I'd port it to the CBM Pet computer. Money talks, I just wish Commodore would raise it's voice a little.